Butcher&#39;s gambrel



ldatentecl Aug. 4, 1931 UITE STAT 'JAMES OSCAR BENTON, GF GUTHB-E, IOWA nnfrcrrnns GAMBREL Reille of application Serial No. 276,090, filed May 8, 1928.

This application led July 10, 1930. Serial This invention relates to gambrels used by butchers in suspending animals in butchering and particularly to the gambrcl shown in the application filed by me on May 8, 1928, Serial No. 276,090 which application has lapsed for nonpayinent of linal fee.

The general object of this invention is to provide a very simple ganibrel of this character having the hooked carcass-engaging levers mounted upon an intermediate supporting bar and having a single chain connected to said levers whereby when the chain is slack the hooked levers may be drawn inward to their full extent and when strain cornes upon the chain the hooked levers will be forced out ward so that the carcass will be spread.

My invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a top plan view of a gambrel constructed in accordance with iny invention,

Figure 2 is a top plan View of the body of the gambrel.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a cross bar which may be made of two sections bolted or riveted to each other in spaced relation. Mounted in said cross bar adjacent the middle thereof are the pulleys l1.

Pivoted to the ends of the cross bar are 3U the levers 12 having hooks 18 at their lower ends, the upper ends of the levers being connected to chains 14 which extend below the pulleys 11 and then extend upward to a ring or like device 16.

It will be understood that while I have referred to two chains 14 that a single chain is used and that this single chain is connected to the ring or loop 16 so that the gambrel may be supported. The two chains or the two 4U ends of the chain extend inward from the upper ends of the levers and over pulleys 17 which I.guide the chain beneath the pulleys 11.

It will be seen from Figure 1 that the levers, which are preferably about 18 in length,

may be drawn inward so as to be engaged with a carcass and then when strain is placed upon the ring 16 the weight of the carcass will cause the lower ends of the levers to be forced outward and the carcass to be spread.

This garnbrel is very simple, it may be readily applied, and the hooked levers may be drawn inward so that they will not be more than 17 apart but when expanded they will be some 54 apart.

I claim 1. A butchers gambrel of the character described comprising a cross bar having a pair of pulleys disposed one on each side of the middle thereof, and a pair of guide pulleys exterior to the first named pulleys, levers pivoted to the ends of the cross bar and having hooks at their lower ends, a single chain having` its ends connected to said levers reraote from the hooks, passed over the second named pulleys and beneath the first named pulleys, and extending upward in a bight above the middle of the cross bar.

2. A butchers gambrel of the character described comprising a cross bar formed in two sections spaced from each other, apair of pulleys disposed between said sections adjacent to but one on each side of the middle of the bar, a pair of guide pulleys disposed outwardly of the first named pulleys, levers pivoted between the sections of the cross bar and at their lower ends formed with hooks, and a single chain connected at its ends to said levers, the chain passing inwardly from each lever over one of the guide pulleys and beneath one of the first named pulleys and then upward to form a bight portion disposed above the middle of the cross bar, and a ring through which the bight of the chain loosely passes.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aix my signature.

JAMES OSCAR BENTON. 

